Weinmann Euphorbium Caule Squamoso, Euphorbium ceri effigie spinis.. c1740

$425.00

Antique Print of Euphorbia: Many-stemmed Euphorbia, Spiny Euphorbia.

Original copperplate engraving with etched outline and mezzotint colour-printed interior tones by Johann-Jacob Haid (1704-1767). One of the earliest examples of colour-printing with watercolour from a single plate (hand-finished). Published between 1737-1745 for Phytanthoza Iconographia, or comprehensive survey of thousands of native and foreign plants, from all four corners of the world, the result of many years of tireless study, by Regensburg apothecary Johann Willhelm Weinmann (1683-1741).

As his business interests flourished, Weinmann spent more time pursuing his passion of botany. He created a botanical garden in Regensburg, published the Catalogus Alphabetico ordine exhibens Pharmaca (Alphabetical Pharmaceutical Catalogue in 1723, and contributed botanical notes as 'Observationes und Anmerkungen' in the Breslauer Sammlungen. New botanical species described by Weinmann are appended with the standard author abbreviation of J.W.Weinn. His grand life achievement was his 8 folio-sized volumes of Phytanthoza Iconographia, a florilegium with more than 1,000 colour-printed engravings of several thousand plants and trees. Weinmann's grand life achievement was his 8 folio-sized volumes of Phytanthoza iconographia, a florilegium with more than 1,000 colour-printed engravings of several thousand plants and trees.

Size of page 15 x 9 inches or 38 x 23cm.